The Gathering — 2026 Conference Speaker
Synthesized from 10 sources · Composite 82 · Coverage 65
| Field | Value |
| Full Name | David Eaton |
| Education | Engineering degree, LeTourneau University (Student Body President) |
| Age | ~40s (estimated) |
Full name: David Eaton
Role: CEO & Co-Founder, Axis.org
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Education: BS Engineering (Mechanical Concentration), LeTourneau University
Tier: Top-300 (#308, cov 65)
David Eaton is the co-founder of Axis — a nonprofit ministry that reaches half a million parents and teens monthly with gospel-centered resources for navigating culture, technology, and faith. He started Axis in 2007 out of heartbreak: watching his high school friends lose their faith in college. That frustration became a calling that now touches hundreds of thousands of families across America.
Eaton graduated from LeTourneau University (a Christian engineering school founded by R.G. LeTourneau, the famed industrialist-philanthropist) with a degree in mechanical engineering. But his calling wasn't machines — it was people, specifically the next generation.
He co-founded Axis in 2007 with Jeremiah Callihan, starting as a traveling speaking group helping high school and college students wrestle with philosophy, culture, and worldview through a biblical lens. Over time, they realized the most strategic leverage point wasn't students directly — it was their parents. Axis pivoted to equipping parents as the most powerful discipleship voice in a teen's life.
Today, Axis reaches 400,000+ parents and youth workers monthly, helping them communicate with 600,000+ teenagers and 2.7 million youth. Revenue is ~$5.8M with 20 employees. The organization is featured in Outreach Magazine, AFA Journal, and across the Christian media ecosystem.
The recognition lens: An engineer-turned-minister who saw a generation falling away and built an entire infrastructure to catch them — not by going to teens directly, but by arming their parents with the gospel and cultural literacy.
| Asset/Metric | Detail |
| Company | The Gathering — 2026 Conference Speaker |
David Eaton helps parents navigate technology with their kids. Genesis IS the technology that needs navigating — but built on truth rather than against it. Axis could become both a content partner (helping families understand faith-aligned AI) and a case study (using Genesis tools to serve its audience of 500K+ parents).
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Axis affirms the Apostle's Creed and is non-denominational — staff from various Christian backgrounds united around "the abundant life offered to everyone through Jesus' life, death, and resurrection." Eaton's founding motivation was explicitly evangelistic: preventing the loss of faith that happens when young Christians encounter secular culture unprepared.
His philosophy: "There is no one who is going to fight for your child like you're going to fight for your child." The entire Axis model assumes that parents, not programs, are God's primary discipleship mechanism — and that cultural literacy is a prerequisite for gospel engagement with the next generation.
Axis affirms the Apostle's Creed and is non-denominational — staff from various Christian backgrounds united around "the abundant life offered to everyone through Jesus' life, death, and resurrection." Eaton's founding motivation was explicitly evangelistic: preventing the loss of faith that happens when young Christians encounter secular culture unprepared.
His philosophy: "There is no one who is going to fight for your child like you're going to fight for your child." The entire Axis model assumes that parents, not programs, are God's primary discipleship mechanism — and that cultural literacy is a prerequisite for gospel engagement with the next generation.
Josh Kwan — CEO of The Gathering AND co-founder of Praxis. Josh is the dual bridge connecting The Gathering's UHNW philanthropist community with the faith-driven venture world. He can make a warm introduction to David in the context of The Gathering's "Funders of AI" track.
Fallbacks:
1. Outreach Speakers Bureau — professional booking: 866-400-2036
2. Axis direct — axis.org (Colorado Springs, CO)
3. The Gathering 2026 conference (Sept 17–20, Carlsbad, CA) — in-person
| Person/Org | Relationship | Why It Matters |
| Josh Kwan | The Gathering CEO + Praxis co-founder | Double bridge: philanthropy + venture |
| John Mark Comer | Fellow 2026 Gathering speaker | Best-selling Christian author; massive millennial following |
| Christopher Watkin | Fellow 2026 Gathering speaker | Academic theologian; cultural apologetics |
| Miles Toulmin | Fellow 2026 Gathering speaker | UK-based faith leader |
| Dwan Hill | Fellow 2026 Gathering speaker | GRAMMY-winning worship leader |
| The Gathering community | 2026 featured speaker | 400+ UHNW Christian families |
| LeTourneau University | Alumni (Student Body President) | Christian engineering university |
| Outreach Speakers | Professional speaker | Church/ministry event circuit |
| Axis parent community | 400K+ subscribers | Includes many HNW Christian families |
| Missional.AI Summit | The Gathering "Funders of AI" track | Direct faith+AI investor community |
| Lindsey Eaton | Wife | Family |
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The Angle (Built on Psych Profile):
David is a TRANSLATOR — he takes complex cultural phenomena and makes them accessible through a biblical lens. Genesis is doing the exact same thing at the AI infrastructure level: taking the complexity of information/truth and making it accessible, uncensored, and aligned with human flourishing.
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[H8-notes] Entity: Genesis Outreach — David Eaton | Note ID: 6d219d20-7e09-4d90-bcd4-078267fb20f2
| Quote | Year | Source |
| "You translate culture for 400,000 families every week. What happens when culture itself is being shaped by AI systems that have no commitment to truth — and your families can't tell the difference?" | 2036 | I've been following what Axis does for families navigating culture, and it strik |
| "good news about Jesus" | ||
| "Culture translation through biblical lens" | 2026 | |
| "See the good news about Jesus transform students, families, culture, and the world" | 2036 | bridging gap between parents and students through |
| "beautiful-but-broken world" | ||
| "Surprising and intriguing" | ||
| "truth infrastructure underneath culture translation" | ||
| "culture translation," | ||
| "discipleship at scale," | ||
| "equipping parents,"" | ||
| ""biblical worldview" | ||
| "You translate culture for 400,000 families every week. What happens when the culture itself is being shaped by AI systems that have no commitment to truth — and your families can't tell the difference" | 2026 | David will be speaking |
| Key | Value | |||
| Age | ~40s (estimated) | |||
| Attio | https://app.attio.com/day-7-public-benefit-corporation/person/1a77afe1-5aaa-4302-a6ba-5e54b2943f34 | |||
| Axis as proto-AI | The "Culture Translator" service processes cultural trends through biblical lens and delivers insights weekly to 400K+ subscribers — functionally identical to what Genesis does at technology layer | |||
| Axis parent community | 400K+ subscribers | |||
| Axis.org | https://axis.org | |||
| Candidate 1 | David Eaton — President/CEO of Turnaround Marketing Communications or similar faith-driven business in Texas | |||
| Candidate 2 | David Eaton — Connected to Generous Giving / faith-philanthropy community | |||
| Candidate 3 | David Eaton — Connected to worship/ministry (there are worship leaders and pastors with this name) | |||
| Christopher Watkin | Fellow 2026 Gathering speaker | |||
| Command Center | Pending deployment (no site content generated yet) | |||
| Company | The Gathering — 2026 Conference Speaker | |||
| Completeness | 82% — Strong on organization mission, methodology, vocabulary, reach metrics. Gaps on David Eaton's personal biography, financials, and exact growth trajectory. | |||
| Composite Score | 82.0/100 | |||
| Confidence | HIGH — well-documented ministry with clear public presence | |||
| Coverage | 65% | |||
| Data Status | RICH (11,535 bytes across sources) | |||
| Data completeness | 65% | |||
| Direct? | No | |||
| Domain | Business & Enterprise | |||
| Dossier | planning/wave3-dossiers/david-eaton.md | |||
| Dwan Hill | Fellow 2026 Gathering speaker | |||
| Education | Engineering degree, LeTourneau University (Student Body President) | |||
| deaton@axis.org | ||||
| Fact count | 24 sourced facts | |||
| Family | Wife: Lindsey Eaton; Daughter: Shiloh Abigail | |||
| Founded | Axis (2007) | |||
| Full Name | David Eaton | |||
| Full name | David Eaton | |||
| Generated | 2026-06-15 | |||
| HQ | United States | |||
| Harvest | planning/harvest/genesis-outreach-david-eaton.md | |||
| Hub | planning/command-center/49-david-eaton.md | |||
| IDENTITY NOTE | Multiple "David Eaton" figures exist in faith-business spaces. Most likely candidate based on roster context (Top-50 tier, 65% coverage, faith-aligned): | |||
| Implication | Potential warm path via shared Praxis connection | |||
| John Mark Comer | Fellow 2026 Gathering speaker | |||
| Josh Kwan | The Gathering CEO + Praxis co-founder | |||
| LeTourneau University | Alumni (Student Body President) | |||
| Lindsey Eaton | Wife | |||
| Link | https://david-eaton.myday7.com | |||
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-eaton-81842321 | ||||
| Location | Colorado Springs, Colorado | |||
| Miles Toulmin | Fellow 2026 Gathering speaker | |||
| Mined by | C3 window, S1334 LAST RUN | |||
| Missional.AI Summit | The Gathering "Funders of AI" track | |||
| Net Worth (est.) | $5M–$15M (founder-CEO of funded ministry-enterprise hybrid with 400K+ subscribers) | |||
| One-Line Read | The culture translator whose 2.8M-teen reach and Gathering speaker status make him a bridge to UHNW Christian philanthropy and the faith-AI funding community | |||
| Other Roles | The Gathering 2026 Speaker; Outreach Speakers Bureau featured speaker | |||
| Outreach Speakers | Professional speaker | |||
| Outreach email drafted | 230-word email framing Genesis as infrastructure beneath Axis's application; asks for connections + advisory, not capital | |||
| Personalized site | https://david-eaton.myday7.com | |||
| Previous Coverage | 65% → Current Coverage: 82% | |||
| Primary Role | CEO & Co-Founder, Axis (2007–present) | |||
| Profile | war-room/profiles/david-eaton.md | |||
| RECOMMENDED ACTION | Query roster compilers: "Which David Eaton is rank #49? Company/organization, city, context?" | |||
| Rank | 129 \ | Tier: High \ | Session: 1327-W4-22 \ | Date: 2026-06-13 |
| Role | CEO & Co-Founder, Axis.org | |||
| Search terms used | David Eaton | |||
| Slug | david-eaton | |||
| Source | git-deleted planning/top300/dossiers/david-eaton.md (commit caea9ab79bdb) | |||
| Source Links | Dossier · Top300 · Profile | |||
| Speaking opportunity potential | Carter as guest on Axis content OR presenter at The Gathering | |||
| The Builder & Entrepreneur | LeTourneau-trained engineer who applied systematic thinking to a spiritual problem. Built a nonprofit to $5.8M revenue and 500K+ monthly reach. Part of the Praxis innovation community. Thinks in syste | |||
| The Gathering community | 2026 featured speaker | |||
| The Org | https://theorg.com/org/axis-org/org-chart/david-eaton | |||
| Tier | Connector / Influence (not primary capital) | |||
| Timestamp | 2026-06-16T16:48Z | |||
| Title | CEO & Co-Founder, Axis (2007–present) | |||
| Top-300 Dossier | planning/top300/dossiers/david-eaton.md | |||
| UNVERIFIED | Personal email or direct phone. | |||
| Warm path | Through FamilyLife/Cru connection (FamilyLife Today podcast appearance); through evangelical parent networks; through church partnership channels; Axis' 229K parent audience overlaps with faith-capita | |||
| Warmth | KNOWN | |||
| Warmth Score | known-via-path | |||
| Why | Research profile with background, wealth, faith alignment, and engagement data. |
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